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This is an Oral History/Community Health/Digital Storytelling Project, concerning a highly controversial โCap and Stitchโ Transportation Project being proposed, in Buffalo (NY). The NY Route 33 Kensington Expressway Project, is a $Billion+ Highway Preservation megaproject, proposed by New York Stateโs Department of Transportation [NYSDOT]. However, it is opposed by a significant percentage of the (predominantly) Black and African American East Side Buffalo Community Residents whom have been (most) directly impacted, by its existence, thus far. The massive government reinvestment in the Kensington Expressway will extend its (wrongful) domination of the Humboldt Parkway Neighborhoodโs, and East Side Buffalo Communityโs, landscape. The highway should not be reinvested in, it should be REMOVED. It deserves to be REMEDIATED. The โbest interestโ of the Impacted Historically Economically Disadvantaged Minority Community Residents whom it has been tolerated to compromise, these past 70 years, can be best served. in this generation, by an equitable Project. That would include a comprehensive assessment of the expresswayโs historic Adverse Impacts- especially, as concerning:
Health
Water Quality
Property Values
Property Damage
Adverse Health Impacts
Legacy Resident Opinions
Air Quality (Outdoor and Indoor)
Regional Tourism Ecosystem Impact
Generational Wealth (i.e. Home Equity)
Small Business Commercial Corridor Development
Natural โGreatโ Outdoors Cultural Asset Reclamation
Pollution Levels [i.e. Greenhouse Gas Emission Exposure]
Neighborhood and Community Youth Workforce Development.
It is undeniable that Humboldt Parkway Neighborhoodโs, and East Side Buffalo Communityโs, residents would be better served by Removal and Remediation of NY Route 33 Kensington Expressway, and which would positively facilitate โreconnectionโ of the Humboldt Parkway Neighborhoods severed, and damaged, by the expresswayโs construction, and due to its nearly 100 year-old existence. NYSDOTโs Project is compromising residentsโ โbest interestโ, by confronting us with a pre-determined slate of Project Goals, and by โservingโ to silence residentsโ outcry, at the risk of terminating our complaints. This, as opposed to partnering with we residents, and cultivating the amplification of our voices. NYSDOT is failing to give due consideration to our (preferred) Highway Removal Project hope. NYSDOT must fully explore Alternate Option Ten: Removal. Todayโs Kensington Project is as unfair, and undemocratic, as its 1950s era predecessor. More than 30 USA Cities have already or are removing, their 1950s era highways.
Why not here, in Buffalo?
What we stand to gain, is restoring a (formerly) majestic tree-lined Humboldt Parkway Neighborhood, to its (predominantly) Black and African American, East Side Buffalo Community. Reconnect separated Humboldt Parkway Neighborhoods, and return these to their (former) connectivity. All the way from Delaware Park, to Humboldt/MLK Park, to downtown Buffalo. Like many other urban inner-city freeways, the Kensington Expressway helped kill our cityโs downtown. More than 100 small businesses were shuttered, to make way for its installation. Hundreds of 60-foot trees. Hundreds of East Side Commercial Corridor small businesses. All sacrificed, for a highway landed in the middle of a (densely) populated, (increasingly) Black and African American Community. Please recognize the Racial Injustice, permeating this Problem. Numerous Humboldt Parkway Neighborhood Residents, and East Side Buffalo Community Residents, have agreed to be interviewed to support this first-of-its-kind, Buffalo Neighborhood and Community Empowerment Video Initiative. May their well-intentioned contributions, be honored.
To add your Support Factor, please sign the (corresponding) Change.Org Petition relating to this Effort, at: http://tinyurl.com/k5m7scx4. For timely Updates of this crucially important Community Economic Development Opportunity, this Equity In Transit and Transportation Projects Matter, please visit:
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Thank You, to:
The East Side Collaborative Partnership.
Thank You, as well, to:
We Are Women Warriors
East Side Parkways Coalition
Stop The Violence Coalition
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Respectfully,
Ms. Sherry Sherrill, President and CEO,
Covington Associates Consulting | CAC
Buffalo, NY, USA
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